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In southwestern Africa, a dozen scientists dig in the dirt. In a week, they’ve transected 100 miles of shifting sand dunes and flat gravel plains across the Namib Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. They’ve filled hundreds of…

The history of the Bois du Cazier coal mining site dates back to a 1822 concession, in which a transcription error caused the name of the location to be changed from the correct Bois de Cazier. The mine originally had two shafts reaching 765…

It was a chilly February day. Dangwen and his wildlife monitoring team patrolled along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The river was frozen solid, easy for poachers to walk over. That day, they encountered 220 blue sheep, five white-lipped deer,…

Shipping There it is on the horizon, clear as day. At half a kilometre long, it’s hard to miss the hulking outline of a container ship or smaller, more elegant, ocean liner. Not so clear to the eye is the…

Old power plants switching from coal to wood has been one of the major energy trends of the decade, allowing them to avoid carbon taxes and tap into subsidies for renewable energy. The reasoning behind designating this ‘biomass’ as a…

Biocasa is a case study of an Italian house, which is advanced from a green building perspective to be the first private building in Europe to receive the highest certificate of compliance, equivalent to platinum, for the Leadership in Energy…

If we were convinced to have made the most of the sun’s energy, it was because we had not yet thought of turning a dismantled coal mine into a giant floating photovoltaic plant. Someone else did it: China. As usually…

Can you bear it that polar bears may go extinct? Polar bears are beautiful and act cute, which leads both adults and children to care about them. Our industrial system is putting the survival of polar bears at risk. The…

An old cliché declares that the challenges we face often present the greatest opportunities. Yet in the case of addressing climate change, we have historically remained too wedded to litigating the existence of the problem at all, often because the…

The Domino Sugar Refinery was the first refinery of the American Sugar Refining Company. It processed more than half of the sugar sold in the United States. Located in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, operated between 1882 and 2004.…